Re: SNMP community strings

From: Nick Krontiris (nkrontir@hotmail.com)
Date: 05/29/02 

From: nkrontir@hotmail.com (Nick Krontiris)
Date: 29 May 2002 07:27:46 -0700

Dave Pimlott <newsgroups@SPAMFILTERdavepimlott.info> wrote in message news:<3CF202D6.C2FACEC6@SPAMFILTERdavepimlott.info>...
> Nick Krontiris wrote:
> >
> > After that, I restarted then snmp daemon and run a snmp query on the
> > machine using a command line from a linux box, querying the "public"
> > community strings, as well as from a windows machine running
> > solarwinds. The answer came back normally, just like before. Then, I
> > queried again using the new community strings, but no answer came back
> > meaning that the new queries did not use the community strings I had
> > set, but the default public ones.
> > I thought that maybe there were more daemons running that involve
> > snmp, so I rebooted the unix box.
> > To my surprise, my manual query from my linux box as well as
> > solarwinds replied once more that the community strings were set to
> > "public".
> > So I guess the answer to your question is that I restarted the daemon,
> > and after I saw that this did not work, I rebooted the machine...
>
> Cool, that should have worked... what I didn't want to say in my first
> post was - "did you restart the SNMP daemon" because some might take
> offense at such an elementary suggestion...
>
> I only have experience of the UCD SNMP implementation on Solaris, but
> here goes with some generic ideas:
> - search for all files with snmp in them, I would use "find / -print |
> grep snmp" you might have a better solution. Check for conf files in
> places you haven't modified.
> - you might have been on the right track with your idea about multiple
> daemons, try "ps -ef | grep snmp" (for SysV style unix) or "ps ax | grep
> snmp" (for BSD style).
> - for SysV unices check the init scripts to see if the conf file is hard
> coded.
> - check the man page for other / default conf files?!?
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Dave.
Thanks for your help Dave. What I did in the end was abandon the
default daemon that my system used and installed ucd snmp! Everything
works now!
Thanks for your time.

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